...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character...

...rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Prank,— all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood."— TB Macaulay. acquainted with a young Scotchman, James Boswell, Esq., a vain, tattling, frivolous busybody,...

...orangepeel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grnntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,...familiar to us as the objects by which we have been rorrounded from childhood."—?'. B. Macaulay. acquainted with a young Scotchman, James Boswell, Esq.,...

...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute and hearty eloquence; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence,...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." DEATH. In 1783, he was attacked with paralysis, and soon after was swollen with dropsy. His constitutional...

...sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levet and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro...objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character...

...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character...

...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character...

...orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruutings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,...objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character...

...orangepeel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntincs, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,...all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we hav» been surrounded from childhood."— TB Macaulay. acquainted with a young Scotchman, James Bos...

...queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank — all are familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. 2. Johnson, as Mr. Burke most justly observed, appears far greater in Boswell's books than in his own....